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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:13:56 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> > In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes:
> > > In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> > > > Ha Ha. Star Wars is actually closer to following the laws of phyisics • than
> > > > Star Trek on most points. Hyperspace and the Deathstar are really the • only
> > > > laws of phyiscs SW breaks. ST on the other hand breaks laws with most of • its
> > > > technology and it is still weaker.
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> > > Just for my own physics-illiterate curiosity, what laws specifically do • you
> > > consider the Death Star to break?
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> > > Dave!
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> > Even if the Death Star used its entire structure (160km diameter for DS1, • 600km
> > diameter DS2) to fuel its hyper-matter reactor it still would not have
> > sufficent energy to blow apart a planet. I'd say that is a major physics
> > problem that was solved by 'movie magic' that must be accepted as 'real' for
> > the purposes of argument.
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> As I know of DS1 and DS2 diameters are 120 and 160 km (or thereabouts)
> respectively. Where do you get these numbers? Of course I could be
> wrong, but I just want to learn about your source, since the diameter of
> second one extremely large with your numbers.
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> Selçuk
The 120 and 160 km numbers are arbitrary ones created by offical sources. If
you hang around the newsgrourp alt.startrek.vs.starwars long enough you will
find many references to people to have calculated the 'actual' dimentions based
on on-screen (canon) evidence. This always overrides mere offical numbers.
The same problem occurs with the offical 8km long Super Star Destroyer which is
'actually' 17.6km long. Most of the other size measurments in offical sources
are calculated correctly so are not wrong.
P.S. I am leaving for a week so I probably won't be able to respond till next
tuesday.
-Lord Insanity
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